This Is How Terrible Atlantic City, New Jersey Is Now
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2022
- Oh my gosh this place is one of the worst places on the east coast.
Is this place being destroyed right before our eyes?
Atlantic City. Back in the roaring 20s, this place was called the World’s Playground. The beach, the boardwalk and gambling. There really was nothing like it. However, this city has fallen on hard times over the last couple decades. It has a really bad reputation for crime and blight, and is suffering from a huge loss in tourism. It’s a living breathing decay in progress, happening right now in front of us.
So of course I had to see it. So I went there.
Now we’re going to spend some time looking at the good and the bad parts of Atlantic City. Well, there really isn’t A LOT of good here - once you’re a block from the casinos, it’s pretty rundown. Even the streets NEAR the casinos are kinda shady. Right now, we’re on Pacific Avenue. This is the main drag where most of Atlantic City’s casinos are located. It’s pretty sketch here - there are strip clubs, ghetto bars, liquor stores, and people standing around that look like they’re doing something illegal. You’ll see homeless people, addicts, drunks, rowdy teens, and the mentally ill.
The liquor stores along Pacific Avenue get robbed. Tourists get robbed here. Actually, most of the assaults that take place in Atlantic City happen right here, within viewing distance of these rundown casinos.
Let’s go one street over. Now we’re on Atlantic Avenue - one block further from the boardwalk. This street is bad news, pal. It, too is super sketchy at all hours, but at night - it’s a horror show. It’s dark and seedy and people are doing terrible things in the shadows.
There’s no wonder why Atlantic City got a bad reputation and why hotel bookings are down. This place used to be amazing. For a long time, it was the only place to offer legal gambling outside of Nevada. It’s a short train ride from New York City, and people all over the northeast used to flock here every year.
Now, there’s casinos in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, or people can just fly down to Florida, Myrtle Beach or Virginia Beach.
Plus Hurricane Sandy really did a number on this place.
They were kinda optimistic here for a while. There were some new fancy casino openings, and crime was going down a bit.
This is a good time to transition to the Board Walk. Get it? The Atlantic City boardwalk isn’t that bad during the day. There’s a lot of stuff to get you entertained for an afternoon.
It’s sad to see the world’s first ever boardwalk in such decline. But at least the ocean views are pretty. So that’s cool.
Ok so now we’re going to the bad side of town where all the dangerous neighborhoods are. Let me just say, that practically this entire city is bad. There are some okay streets, but I haven’t really been to a place before where there wasn’t at least one large nice part of town. Everything in Atlantic City - practically every block - is below average run down. Not ghetto ghetto. But ghetto.
There’s a lot of section 8 housing here, and with that comes a lot of drug and gang activity. Lots of hoodlums and pimps. A lot of robberies, assaults and car jackings. Crime here is 12 times higher than the national average per capita.
It’s bad here at night. It’s very rundown and very sad.
A lot of people in these neighborhoods rely on the casinos for their employment. Dealers can make a lot of dough - maybe 25 an hour, plus a hundred bucks a day in tips. Though, most workers at the casinos make minimum wage. At least it’s cheap here - the average home price is $165,000. You can see why.
But the lifeline that the casinos provide residents here has been severed. Due to Covid and bad casino management, Atlantic City has seen some hard times, people. Residents here have been struggling for a long time now, but after Covid, 40% of the population here lives in poverty.
The president of the Atlantic City housing authority said - The landscape in Atlantic City is pretty dire right now.
People are broke and hungry and desperate here.
AC is a dumping ground for ex felons, needle exchanges, welfare recipients and sex offenders. Just look at the list of all the sex offenders who live here. What the what the
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“These days?” AC has always looked like this, even when the casinos were booming in the 80s and 90s!
Atlantic City has always looked like that. It was never amazing in the 70’s and 80’s. The whole reason casinos were allowed to open there was so that the tax revenues, etc. would go towards city and community improvements. Those never happened.
I just spent a couple of days in AC, which is probably why this video popped up for me. The family and I had a great time and we never felt unsafe. Nearly every hotel room was sold out.
Imagine having a monopoly on east coast gambling FOR A GENERATION and wasting it. The massive corruption of the monopoly of the parry in power.
"Is this place being destroyed before our very eyes?"
I lived there from 2008 til 2014 worked security at the showboat. Lived on pacific ave in one of the condos. Took the jitney bus to and from work at late hours. Never got robbed or anything. Just have to be aware of your surroundings and watch out for yourself
Born and Raised in NJ, worked at Harrah's and never felt unsafe. We have amazing historic Restaurants that are the best.
As someone who has strong roots in Atlantic City there are some shady areas but not all of Atlantic City is a mess. The areas south of Tropicana casino in the Chelsea area and further south when you get to Ventnor are pretty much safe clean areas.
I work here all the time for my job, it’s the hood on the water. Very sad, has so much potential
This is nothing new Nick, born and raised in NJ and worked in AC area for years, its Camden-by-the-Sea. Pacific Ave has been shite for a long time
I have completed 1200 DoorDash deliveries and close to 800 of those deliveries have been in Atlantic City. I've delivered all over the city from as early as 7 AM all the way to 4 AM. I don't remember ever feeling afraid. The only time I did was in Pleasantville. I've gone through a few working class neighborhoods and what I saw was cliche busting. Kids playing. A bunch of adult men walking around talking about and working on cars. I've seen really crappy areas of AC. I've also seen the good parts. I understand the negatives but you weren't even handed in your treatment of this city.
I grew up about 15 miles from AC, and moved there when I was newly married. My husband was a cab driver and I cleaned houses and waitressed. I was there when the voter referendum came up to allow casino gambling in the city. I vigorously opposed the casinos because I knew what they would do to the city with its shakey infostructure. AC was beautiful and fun in the '60s, '70s, and the beginning of the '80s. It was when then that the Mob out of Philly came in and infiltrated the casinos. We left in1984. I now live in Lethbridge, Alberta Canada and I love it here.
As a kid living in 1970s' NJ, my parents decided to go AC for vacation because they heard about the Boardwalk, etc. needless to say when we got there we stayed one night just long enough to buy one of those souvenir plates that you hang on the wall and drove away before nightfall.
I grew up right outside the city. My parents worked there for 30 years. Left in 2013, and never looked back.
As a kid in the mid-60’s, the family used to go down to AC for a week every summer. But that was BTC … (Before The Casinos). After dark, the boardwalk was always crowded with tourists. The amusement rides, tourist shops and games used to keep everybody entertained. The casinos originally chased all the families away. Sad.
I was in AC in 1965 as a kid. This was years before the gambling was legalized (mid 70s). What I remember was that once you left the boardwalk, the city area was very run down. My father had a hard time finding a restaurant because the area was very sketchy.
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The nice lady you interviewed Nick is a good example how people make it look it’s “not too bad living in these areas”, hence accountability goes out of the window and complacency sets in. Sad but true … please don’t normalize the decay and crime
The whole USA is on a downward spiral. Just take a look at the crime stats for all the major cities. If you did not know they were American cities you might think its Mexican cities controlled by the Cartels, or Brazil that has a number of the cities that rank most dangerous in the world. Remember, Empires are not destroyed by outside invaders but tend to collapse internally from decay, crime, and moral perversion, exactly what's happening in the USA.